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We decided to stay at Erudite for a while until Alaska wakes up. It's really cold, it must be midnight at least by now. I left Dale with Tobias and Alaska because I wanted to look around their compound. I go to the private lab, which is normally guarded by around 30 soldiers, but luckily this place is like a ghost town.
I hate this place, so many bad things have happened here. Even the smell, makes me feel sick. It's too clean and full of chemicals. I don't know what I'm expecting to find here but surely I'll be able to find something. I scan the lab and empty some cupboards but it all looks normal. Experiments laid out perfectly and everything perfectly on its place. Massive black screens are placed around the room, ready to play something. I watch them for a while expecting them to just switch on at their own accord but they don't. They just remain blank.
The computer is sitting on the pale desk, already turned on. Unfortunately, it demands to have a password. I think hard about what it could be but I have no idea. Out of desperation, I type 'Chicago.' As suspected, it denies it. A small message in a white text box appears, reading 'LAST CARRIAGE.' It disappears instantly. Somebody knows that we are here. They want to meet us.
When I get back to Tobias, Alaska is waking up. Her face is filling with a heathy colour again. Her eyes snap open and she inhales sharply. Her body tenses but when she looks at Dale and relaxes. "Hey." Dale says.
She scoots off his lap and gives him a huge hug.
"Do you feel okay?" I ask.
"I feel great!" She says sarcastically, "Did you put me to sleep or something?"
"Yes. I'm sorry but there wasn't enough time to ask for your permission." Tobias says.
Alaska laughs and then says, "You did the right thing, my head was buzzing and not in a good way."
"We've got to get moving. They sent a message, on a computer in there. It said to go to the last carriage and the train comes in a few minutes."
Dale helps Alaska up. I'm worried about her but I give her some space. Dale will look after her.
"Who was it from?" Tobias asks.
"I don't know." I say.
"It must be a trap and we are unarmed." Alaska says
Tobias looks at me and smirks.
"We are never unarmed." He says.
He gives his spare gun to Alaska. I don't have a spare one but I still give it to Dale but he just keeps it in his palm where I left it.
"Take it. I'm not too fond of guns anyway." I say before he can object.
Tobias gives me a stern look and walk over and places his gun in my hand.
"I just–"
"No arguments. Either you have it or we leave it on the floor."
"Fine." I say, knowing that it would be stupid to just leave it lying around. He just wants me to be safe so I just take it.
They might be not even be a threat, they could be a spokesperson from Bureau or someone from Dauntless. I might not need this gun anyway.
We hurry down to the train tracks. They just start to vibrate when we get there.
"Don't do anything stupid, okay? Let whoever it is explain themselves first. If they seem threatening, you can do what crazy things you want to do." Tobias says.
"You ready?" I ask Alaska.
"Sure."
The train skims past our faces and we run opposite it to get to the last train. Tobias is in front of me and jumps before I do. I grab the handle and the force almost flings me sideward but I manage to push myself in. Slouched on the opposite side of the carriage, is the person that went along with Chloe's plans. She could have stopped them, she could have stopped Chloe from locking me in that room with the gas. She probably helped swiped my memory. She's bleeding.
"Gemma, what happened?" I ask while moving towards her.
I have to help her, if she dies now it will be my fault. Her hands are shielding and pressed down on her thigh but the blood still seeps through the gaps between her fingers. Alaska passes me her shirt.
"I got shot, just before… just before I got on the train. I'm sort of a traitor now. I came to help you. I'm not supposed to be here. I've seen everything." She says while move I rip the black shirt into a large strip of fabric. I move her hands away and start to wrap it around her thigh like a bandage. She screams when the fabric tightens around her gunshot wound. She stops screaming when I've finish and just moans and grunts through gritted teeth.
"I've got some stuff that will knock you out, I used it on Alaska a few hours ago. It works. It will get rid of the pain." Tobias says kindly, already starting to trust her.
"Please do it." Her face is pale now. She's losing a lot of blood.
Tobias inserts it into her neck, she's goes limp.
"Do you think she'll make it?" I ask Tobias.
"Yeah. People have survived worse, I guess." He says.
We need to get off the train now, we are at Dauntless. Tobias picks her up and jumps first and lands on his feet. The rest of us follow.
When we arrive, Evelyn and less than half of Dauntless are waiting inside.
"You broke the curfew. You broke the rules. We are preparing for war, this is not acceptable. You will not–"
Curfew? Nobody told us about one. She must have done it on purpose so I and her son don't have to fight. She's never trusted us, always thought we were working for other people.
"We don't have time for this! This girl is dying in my arms!" Tobias shouts and interrupts. The crowd parts before Evelyn has a chance to say anything, leaving us a huge gap to walk through.